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Last updated at 17:21, 2 Dec 2016Uploaded at 21:19, 20 Dec 2012

Since I started modding the first time ever with my 'Ultimate HD Torch' mod, I am infected! After retexturing the fire effects of the torch, I thought it would be nice to have better fire textures for the whole game. So here is the next step getting better fire textures in Skyrim:The Ultimate HD Fire Effects!

If you recognize a "missing texture", bugs or you simply have suggested improvements feel free to contact me or just leave a message in the comments!

Fixed the pixelated campfires and, for example, the main fire in the Bannered Mare in Whiterun by retexturing fxfirecolumnanimloop.dds into an extra file (reduced the framecount/pictures of the loop for higher resolution)!

Added two edited campfire meshes to get the retextured fxfirecolumnanimloop02.dds working properly!

Updated the low-res package for v1.8

v1.7:

Retextured magicicewisps.dds for a much better look (texture is also used for frost spells!)

Reworked the whole project again, using different textures for some effects.

Alpha Channels have been adjusted for some texture files.

Added a low-res version of the mod. Only use it, if you have a very old machine...it improves the vanilla game, but compared to the hi-res version it doesn't look good at all!

To fix the flickering issue of the old versions I used edited .nif files to do a workaround. The fires didn't flicker anymore but the burning animation looked bad compared to the actual version. The old meshes made the fire effects look kind of stuttering/not very fluently burning. So I did the complete rework of the textures. The mod doesn't need the old .nif files anymore and looks great!

Thanks and kudos to Brodual for presenting this video on youtube!!

INSTALLATIONSimply unzip the Main Files or Optional Files into your Data Folder.

If you are updating from a previous version please delete the following meshes:

Take your time to follow the installation instructions on the "Project ENB" and "CoT" mod pages step by step!

Your fire effects should now look like the ones from my screenshots...

TROUBLESHOOTING/COMPATIBILITY

If you use 'Skyrim Particle Patch for ENB' install it first and then install my mod overwriting all conflicting files.

Some users reported a problem concerning thin black lines around the fire effects (fire magic, campfires etc.). It is a problem from the vanilla game and there is nothing I can do about it. You have to change Anti Aliasing to 4x or less to fix it or switch to Sweet FX and use SMAA instead.

If you have orange/red fires which seem to be oversaturated make sure you didn't change gradients files in the /data/textures/effects/gradients folder. Only use vanilla gradients with this mod for best visual fire experience! Some mods change the gradients which are responsible for the color palette of effects, and make them much more saturated.